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8 December 2016
Exploring the gold mine of funders' data
Conversations around data are gaining momentum in the charity sector. Open data in particular—freely used, modified, and shared by anyone—is generating a lot of hype, and for good reason. Seeking out and analysing open data from various sources – including government data – offers funders a number of practical benefits. It can improve our understanding […]
17 October 2016
The need for good data, not just more data
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for 360Giving, with three different but complementary events emphasising the need for good quality funding data. Firstly, there was the launch of the excellent Giving Trends report, co-written by ACF and CASS. As a newbie to the world of philanthropy, Giving Trends is my go-to report for learning […]
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30 April 2014
Giving Trends - Top 300 Foundations 2014 report
Fascinating morning at the launch of the Association of Charitable Foundations and CASS Business School report on the Top 300 UK Foundations Giving Trends. It’s an excellent piece of work, but we were struck how much richer and easier the work would be if grant makers published their grants to an open data standard along […]
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17 March 2014
Foundation transparency: why it matters - article by Fran Perrin Alliance Magazine March 2014
Foundation transparency: why it matters A huge amount of work has gone into making international aid flows more open, resulting in the International Aid Transparency Initiative. The work was led by the UK, yet domestic grants made by UK foundations remain opaque. Why is it that I can look up where the UK government or […]
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23 January 2014
Transparency in giving in the cultural sector - evidence to Warwick Commission on cultural value
I gave evidence to the Warwick Commission today on a range of digital issues and philanthropy. The digital stuff i cover over there but here is the section on philanthropy and transparency. I call in particular for the Arts Council England, which publishes its grants to publish also the evidence and evaluations they hold for […]
24 June 2013
Opening up data around grant making - a demonstrator for Esmee Fairbairn
In 2010, Esmee Fairbairn a leading grant maker in the social justice area held a futures event. One team took Esmee’s grant information from their website (where it was published in pdf documents) and turned it into a database. By turning the data into a versatile database, instead of static documents they were able to […]